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Monday April 11, 2011

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Radio Noon's Election Highlights - Week 2

Our weekly Election Highlight Reel: a recap of the best election moments on Radio Noon. Host Bernard St-Laurent grappled with 'all things political' from our weekly Monday round table of candidates to the 'gotcha' attitude in the political party back rooms to feature interviews... Read more...

MondayAs usual we set out on Week Two with our Monday Candidates Round Table. Here's an excerpt from the candidates tangling over the issue of scrapping the long gun registry.You'll hear Conservative Rodolphe Husny followed by the Bloc's Thierry St-Cyr, then Marlene Jennings of the Liberals and then Jeff Itcush of the New Democrats:

TuesdayCanon Alan T. Perry explained to Bernard St-Laurent why he couldn't let his Point Claire Anglican church, St Barnabas, be used for the advance polls. He says the busy Easter weekend including services and events to mark the Procession of the Cross made it impossible for the church to accommodate election officials.

Gilles Paquin of Elections Canada says Canadian law stipulates that advance polls must be held seven, nine and ten days before the vote, that religious holidays are not taken into account.

We also had another of Sally Caudwell's Election Minutes. This one looked at the election timetable, with the stress on time...

WednesdayCandidate Bruno Tremblay of the Greens was in studio on Wednesday to take questions from callers, to talk about Elizabeth May's exclusion from the leaders' debate as well as other issues from taxation to jobs:

ThursdayLiberal foreign affairs critic Bob Rae went 'one on one' with Bernard St-Laurent in our Radio Noon studio on Thursday. He accused the Harper government of placing Canada in the U.S. Republican world of the never-ending campaign: